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r CAUFORNIA CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WA CENTRAL VALLEY REGION 3443 ROUTIER ROAD SACRAMENTO, CA 95827-3098 6 February 1987 Mr. Howard Hatayama Department of Health Services Toxic Substances Control Division North Coast California Section 5850 Shellmound Emeryville, CA 94608 GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN. Governor" (a] F� ICE 1 n , TOXIC PITS CLEANUP ACT (TPCA), HIGH EXPLOSIVE HAZARDOUS LEVELS The Regional Board is in the process of determining the applicability of the TPCA to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)bite 3 0 wase UAaAg=t units. LLNL disposed of high explosive wastewaters into several lagoons until May 1985, when the waste streams were diverted into Class II surface impoundments. Addi- tional sampling will be required of LLNL, as the Regional Board does not have adequate information to make a final determination regarding coverage of the TPCA to these waste management units. The additional sampling will establish whether hazardous levels of contaminants have been exceeded in the waste management units. However, hazardous levels have not been established for high explosives. The explosive compounds used at LLNL Site 300 are: HMX (cyclotetramethylene tetranitramine), RDX (cyclo 1,3,5 trimethylene, 2,4,6, trinitramine), PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate) and TNT (trinitrotoluene). TNT is reported not to be processed using a wet stream. On 3 November 1986, LLNL wrote to the Department of Energy, Environmental Safety and Quality Assurance Division stating thay they had self -determined their wastes to be non -hazardous under Title 22, Chapter 30, Section 66305(b) of the California Administrative Code (CAC), The Department of Health Services was notified at that time (enclosed). If the Department of Health Services does not concur with the LLNL findings, please notify the Regional Board by 17 April 1987, so that a final determination of the applicability of the TPCA to waste management units at LLNL can be made. Based on the information provided by LLNL, the Regional Board has no data to refute their conclusions. In particular, the Regional Board will concur with their self -determined non -hazardous levels with respect to high explosives. However, we will be evaluting the additional sa-npling data to assure that hazardous levels have not been exceeded for other contaminants. The Regional Board will notify you of the additional sampling results to be performed under the TPCA.